Cora has been in love with her childhood best friend Matthew since forever. In middle school her parents suddenly split; the only person who made her feel heard was Matt. But after middle school, everything changed the pair where much more distant...
I lay in my bed knowing I won't do anything apart from watching movies and eating food today. I let out a long annoyed sigh as I loved and hated these days. I hear my phone buzzing next to my head. I grab my phone and see Nate calling me.
"Nate we live in the same house." "I know but I'm not in the house. Can you come pick me up?" "This is why you need to learn to drive." "Please don't lecture me right now. Dad said he'd come but it's been fifteen minutes." "Okay, are you at hockey?" "Yeah. And I've got all my gear so clear your trunk." "Okay be there soon."
I hang up as I jump up and quickly put on a black zip up and slipped on my uggs. I grab my keys that where at the front door and open my trunk. I forgot that I hadn't emptied it in a while. I quickly grabbed a box from the garage and emptied the sun glasses, the dismantled barbies and a family sized jar of cheese puffs. I throw the box into the garage before I start the car and drive to Nate.
I park the car and walk into the rink. I walk through to the stand where I see Nate and some of his friends. "NATE!" One of the boys shouts. Nate turns around and sees me. "Finally" he smiles. "Need help?" I ask as he has two duffel bags over his shoulder. "Yeah, here" he says handing me one. I look over Nate's shoulder and see my old coach. "Hey Cora how have you been?" She asked. "Better." I say with a slight smile. "I know you had that accident but are you willing to come back to the team?" She asks. "Karen, you were an amazing coach. But I'm still deciding." I Answered. "Alright, well you have my number." She smiles before walking off. I let out a sigh as I look back at Nate. "You should join again." He says. "I know." I admit. "Then join. Think about it our practises will be right after one another so you can watch me and I can watch you. Plus the triplets said they'd come back to hockey for a little while." Nate explains. "Alright we'll talk about it more at home." I smile.
"Hey Nate." Says a blonde boy coming down from the stand. "Hey Alister" Nate says. 'Alister.' My thoughts race. "Oh before I go, good luck with that date tonight" Nate winks at him. "Thanks bud" he smiles as he walks off. "Date?" I ask Nate as we walk out the rink with the duffel bags. "Yeah he's going out with some brunette chic." Nate says opening the door. "Huh." I reply. "Something wrong?" He smiles. "Nope, nothing wrong." I smile as we leave the building.
We throw all the gear into the trunk before Nate goes into the back seats and I go into the drivers. "Got you these" I say as I throw back a plastic bag. "What is it?" He asks. "Pants, socks and snacks." I say. "Yay!" He says as he opens the bag to find a pack of goldfish, black sweat pants and white socks. "How did you know what to bring?" He asks. "Because you'd always forget them and I know how your hockey socks and shorts get wet after practise." I say. "Thanks cora" he smiles as he changes. "After we drop all my stuff off can we go hang out?" Nate asks. "Yeah, where you want to go?" I ask. "Let's go to the hill." Nate says. "Good idea." I say as I pull into the drive way.
Nate jumps out the car and opens the trunk grabbing both bags he hands me one and we both walk inside. "How about we go camping with some friends?" I ask. "That would be so cool." Nate says. "Okay, I'll call the triplets and get the gear." I say. "are you also going to call becca?" He asks. "Me and becca aren't friends any more." I mutter. "Why not?" Nate asks as he sets his gear down. "It's over a dumb boy who I don't even like but she thinks I do and got jealous." I explain. "Oh." Nate says. "Alright go pack stuff it's going to be cold. And pack trunks." I say. "Trunks?" He asks. "Remember the secret lake we used to swim in?" I ask. "Ohhh yeah." He realised before walking thought to his closet. I walk through to my room and call nick. No answer. I ended up trying Chris.
"Cora?" "Hey Chris" "Everything okay?" "Yeah, where nick?" "He's on a date right now." "Wow, anyway me and Nate are going camping for one night do you guys want to come with?" "Hell yeah! I'll go tell Matt." "Great. Tell him I'll pick you guys up since where we're going is kinda hidden." "Will do. See you later cora." "Bye Chris!"
I hang up the phone as I grab a backpack and throw in some sweat pants, tank tops, shorts, underwear, socks, hoodies and one and two piece. I grab a make up bag that was sitting in my bathroom and throw my hair brush, hair ties, head bands, scrunchies, some make up wipes, moisturiser and make up. I throw my bag other my shoulder as I grab some pairs of shoes.
I walk down to my car and put my stuff in the back seat. I go through to the garage and grab the four person tent. There where three separate rooms and one huge living space at the front. There had been six people sleeping in it at once so I was convinced we could make it work.
I put the tent in the trunk along with chairs, wood, lighter fluid, grill, fold up table, inflatable mattresses, sleeping bags, rugs, blankets, lights and a pop up changing tent. I grab a cooler box from the garage and fill it with Pepsi, water, ice, Mountain Dew, root beer and sprite. I shove that in the trunk before grabbing a bigger back pack and shoving food into it and taking it back to the car. Nate comes down with his bag and shoes and puts it next to mine in the back.
"What did the triplets say?" He asks. "They would love to come." I smile as we both got into the car. We where going to set up the campsite before I went to pick up thr triplets. There Was a gas station close to the mountain, it had McDonald's, Starbucks and subway.
We got to the site as it was made for camping but not a lot of people knew where it was. I drove up to the flat ground near the top. We got out and started to assemble the tent and locked it up before getting back into the car to go pick up the triplets.
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Yay. I am the person who likes to camp. (If there's a running water source to shower.)
I'm so tired, I don't want to present a speech tomorrow. I should run away and go live a double life in New York, LA, Paris or Japan.
My feelings on the inside:
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Also today I made the purchase of the book ice breaker and Anne franks diary. So... also my reading glasses came today so maybe I can spell correctly for once in my life and make these books better. 🙄✋ like seriously I'm literally so 5 year old child spelling bee. But that's enough hating on myself for one day😜
I just re-read that paragraph how tf can someone be so awkward in LITERAL text. Omfg and my bestie got a bf and he looks alright. (He looks like one of them space jam monsters) but I'm proud of her and her new boy friend😌 (she had to decide between two guys that wanted her and was begging her) and the fact that she has even random men compliment her doesn't make me want to throw my head against a brick wall enough<3 I love her and will always take bad photos of her and keep them like the little gremlin I am. ❤️
